Graveyard of the Atlantic: Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast (1952)

by David Stick

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This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues, and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters -- the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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1952

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North Carolina, USA

Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA

Diamond Shoals, North Carolina, USA

New Inlet, North Carolina, USA

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To my wife,
PHYLLIS,
who shared equally in the tiring
work of research for this book, but
not in the pleasure of writing it.

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Men like Captain Hand, the only survivor of the loss of the sloop Henry at Ocracoke in 1819; and Ensign Lucian Young, hero of the wreck of the U.S. gunboat Huron at Nags Head in 1877; and Dunbar Davis of Southport, who devoted most of his life to saving mariners wrecked on the North Carolina coast, deserve the bulk of the credit for this book.

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List of Atlantic hurricanes before 1600

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This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues, and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters -- the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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